Inside Uptown & 'Round About
NEWS BRIEFS
CONTENTS
- Take me to this brief:
UC's Miss Ohio - CCM vocalist takes 2003 crown
Nobody won cash - Ben Stein got grads' applause
Grand total - Donors make 2002 best year ever
Underground railroad - UC
named Freedom Station
Long time coming - WWII vet
gets diploma at last
Prickly "Devil" - Ken
Snelson, students install sculpture
Medical research nets $5 mil
- Membranes rock
Big splash for cash - Greeks play
games for charity
Chubby double - Obesity stalks
cloned creatures
Evening College retires - Programs,
students continue
On the way up - Kudos to deans,
Bush adviser
To Broadway and back - Flaherty
here, CCM everywhere
Take smaller bitessssss - Snake
won’t swallow it whole
Leading the pack - Students take
Ohio honors, NY prize
Seeing
the light - NSF faculty award for photon wizard
Rebuilding "Ground Zero"
- Alum heads memorial plans
Tanks for helping - Selling their
shirts, supporting a cause
CCM
vocalist crowned Miss Ohio
Tiffany
Haas' coloratura soprano soared and sparkled like the jewels in the crown
that would soon proclaim her Miss Ohio 2003. Striving for a Broadway and
Metropolitan Opera career, the CCM musical theater student performed "Glitter
and Be Gay," a courtesan's mock lament from Leonard Bernstein's comic
operetta "Candide."
In addition to the crown, she earned approximately $15,000 in scholarships,
a year of speaking engagements and appearances across the state, a talent
award from composer and lyricist Marvin Hamlisch and the chance to compete
for the Miss America title, where she was a runner-up in the Lifestyle
award. Just two years ago, DAAP alumna Heather Renee French Henry wore
the Miss America 2000 crown.
Tiffany's platform issue, "Operation Smile: Changing Lives One Smile
at a Time," will bolster support for the nonprofit organization that
performs reconstructive surgery throughout the world for people born with
facial deformities. There is an Operation Smile chapter located in Cincinnati.
-- photo/Jim and Jodie McDowell/Miss Ohio Scholarship Program
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| Although Fred Siff was the one honored to pose with Ben Stein, the commencement speaker makes a point to pay homage to UC's vice president and chief information officer. photo/Lisa Ventre |
Nobody
won
Nobody
won any of Ben Stein's money, but the TV celebrity certainly won the admiration
of UC's Class of 2002. The star of Comedy Central's "Win Ben Stein's
Money" quiz show gave the June commencement address, hammed it up
during a faculty photo shoot and made an unannounced appearance at the
student reception hosted by the alumni association afterward.
Valedictorian of his own Yale Law School class, Stein has been a lawyer
for Presidents Nixon and Ford, an adjunct university professor, a columnist,
an author, an actor (a teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off")
and a screenwriter. Now he holds an honorary degree from the University
of Cincinnati.
Four others also received honorary degrees that day:
- Michael Barrett, A&S '74, JD '77, former member of the UC Board of Trustees and partner in the Barrett and Weber law firm
- Webster Cavanee, a pioneer in cancer biology and director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- Richard Lindner, president and chairman of REL Group, as well as a philanthropist on behalf of children and families
- Joel Wyler, a global entrepreneur, a staunch supporter of UC's Carl H. Lindner Honors-PLUS Program and chairman of Eagle-Picher Industries, Granaria Holdings, Landinvest N.V. and Cocon B.V.
Particularly
'grand' total
UC's best
fund-raising year in history, $135.8 million, recently caused the University
Foundation to celebrate. The year's triumphs included the university's
largest-ever single gift, $62.5 million from the French family trust;
Oliver Waddell's $5 million contribution, ranked among UC's top five largest
gifts, for a multiple sclerosis center in the Medical Center's Neuroscience
Institute; and the A.B. Dolly and Ralph Cohen Foundation's $3.8 million
to establish a chair in drama and name the College-Conservatory of Music's
Studio Theater.
